that s 825 times a day on average. are you a surfer, bather, fisherman, fisherman s friend? scorching days are coming. it is free and fun, head to the coast, have a debt. a dip in what? the companies have now pledged £10 billion to put things right. but they say it could mean higher bills. it is it all their fault? it is it all theirfault? sewage systems designed by victorian gentlemen in top hats? are we our own worst enemies? are you sick of the sewage? get in touch. it is going to be a good voyage of discovery. now for the news, read by bethan holmes. water companies in england have apologised for not doing enough to stop sewage from flowing into rivers and seas. they say they ll spend £10 billion this decade on modernising sewers 3 times more than under current plans. but that investment will lead to higher bills. bt is cutting up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade as it seeks to cut costs. the chief exec philipjansen says by the end of the 2020s bt will have a
showers for england, and wales for the most part, it s a dry day with some warm spells of sunshine throughout the day, really. now, on the satellite picture, we can see a lot of cloud coming into north western areas. and it s this cloud that s bringing those widespread showers at the moment to northern ireland, scotland and a few into the north west of england as well. now, through the day, into the afternoon, those showers become a little bit less widespread, so there ll be a bit more sunshine poking through the clouds here. it stays quite windy, though, with gusts into the 30s mph. further south, the winds lighter, there ll be more sunshine and it will feel warm with just a bit of fairweather cloud. temperatures reaching about 23 in the warmest areas, overnight, a few showers in scotland, but then later in the night, we ll see this area of rain develop in the western isles and the highlands. away from the northwest, though, it s a dry night with some clear spells and tempe
The bbc news is that theyve released some new guidelines for presenters and personalities use of social media. News people have to stick to the rules of being completely impartial and not say anything controversial which is all has been the case, but presenters of certain flagship programmes like much of the day your antiques roadshow have been told they cant tweet anything that might be considered controversial while their shows on air orjust before or after they are on air. This is a reaction to that whole row about gary lineker and his tweets that caused a huge for rory and then the bbc had to wrestle with its commitment to impartiality but then what about folk who arent doing news shows and maybe do a handful of shows a year or a collection of shows but also do lots of other work and might want to express views about stuff . And news about gb news is that ofcom, the communications regulator, has announced they are doing an official investigation into those comments by the actor and
air so i m aware. i walked up . you don t need to be. i m live on l air so i m aware. i walked up and down, iwas air so i m aware. i walked up and down, i was up to my ankles in the water and i could see kids playing in it, like a seat on throwing watery each other, just what they ve been doing playing with the football and i could see that it wasn tjust sand that these kids were covered in, it was a yellow stain up their legs and up their arms and then i looked down at my feet and i was equally stained by this yellow. film, for want of a better word. and then you look and concentrate on the water, it was very still, but wet wipes, clearly you can see floaters that you would associate with the contents of your toilet, other detritus that you would not expect to see and i went back to my deckchair with my yellow feet and i